Word: ge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skills that create success in one company's culture can cause failure in another's. Deal and Kennedy would urge a rising GE executive to think hard, for example, before accepting a bigger job at Xerox. Reason: GE moves slowly and cautiously, while Xerox runs at "a near frenetic pace...
...GE: The Pinellas Plant...
...addition to its civilian electronic, energy and transportation activities. GE is one of the nation's top five defense contractors and actually produces nuclear weapons components. Harvard owns more than $20 million in GE stock, according to the most recent University financial report...
...comparison, General Electric seems to be concerned not with how much is spent but with what is watched. Thirteen top-of-the-line 1983 GE televisions will include a home censor for parental use. Just punching in a private code and a channel number will keep Junior from leching after Morgan Fairchild. It will, in fact, keep the entire channel off the set for twelve hours. If Junior learns the code, however, he can retaliate by wiping out, say, Little House on the Prairie. This may introduce a whole new version of family feud...
...times because of the problems involved with developing new weapons and starting up production facilities. Executives at General Electric's aircraft engine division in Lynn, Mass., do not expect to receive big payoffs from the Reagan spending before 1984 or 1985. The Army, for example, wants more of GE's T-700 engines for its Black Hawk helicopters, but it will be at least a year before any additional machines can be produced. Said one company executive: "You know it's not like making more toasters or light bulbs...